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jabailey_287796
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Aug 26, 2016

F5 and WSUS

Here is my question, we have web servers (over 80) in our F5 load balancers and use a WSUS server for updates. Currently, we manually take a web server out of the load balancer, install the updates f...
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boneyard
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Aug 27, 2016

sounds like some form of automating using iControl towards to F5. there are many examples of parts of this, but i doubt you will get a fully functional example for exactly your environment.

 

a simpler solution might be to use a health monitor that polls a specific website you alter just before you start an upgrade process so the big-ip won't send traffic there anymore.